President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is the only Latin American leader to openly support gay marriage – an issue that raises passions and has the potential to significantly add or subtract votes.

In 2010, a year before her reelection and almost two years before U.S. President Barak Obama, President Fernández pushed legislation in favor of gay marriage – a legal project that made Argentina, on July 15, the first country in Latin America to do so. With the law, passed on that day, Argentina became a “more egalitarian society,” in the words of Fernández.

Apart from the president of Argentina, few Latin American presidents have spoken on the subject, and those that have are adversaries of equal rights for homosexual couples.

Today Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño argued against the views of President Obama on promoting the legalization of gay marriage.

“I reaffirm that marriage is a union between a man and a woman,” said Fortuño, president of the Nuevo Progresista Party, who like Obama, seeks to retain his position at the polls this November.

Wonder if Obama really wants this support and to be related to her in politics in any way given her political views supporting nationalization of private industries. She seems to be making some decisions Chavez made in Venezuela when he first gained his position.

The wacko righties call him a socialist now and her support could poor gas on the fire.